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Joe Cortright

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Just one of Phoenix's massive interstates, via Creative Commons
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Phoenix Leaders Are Climate Hypocrites — And They’re Not Alone

By Joe Cortright | Dec 4, 2020 | No Comments
Phoenix says it’s going to reduce greenhouse gases 90 percent by 2050, but the city’s transportation greenhouse gases have risen 1,000 pounds per person since 2014, and it’s planning to spend hundreds of millions widening freeways.
Photo: teslaparkinglot/Instagram
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Op-Ed: It Shouldn’t Cost 31x More To Take Transit Than Park

By Joe Cortright | Sep 24, 2020 | No Comments
Everything you need to know about equity and privilege in urban transportation is reflected in how much we charge for parking compared to transit.
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Op-Ed: Why Most Pedestrian Infrastructure Is Really for Drivers

By Joe Cortright | Sep 8, 2020 | No Comments
Big money “pedestrian” projects are often remedial and performative — and their real purpose is to serve faster car traffic.
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Why Peak Period Road Pricing Is Fair

By Joe Cortright | Sep 29, 2017 | No Comments
Peak hour car commuters in Portland have incomes almost double those who travel by transit, bike, and foot.
Net zero, provided you ignore what its used for. Photo: Haselden Construction
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How Green Is My Free Parking Structure? Not Very.

By Joe Cortright | Jul 20, 2017 | No Comments
Why does the National Renewable Energy Lab give its employees free parking?
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Urban Myth Busting: Congestion, Idling, and Carbon Emissions

By Joe Cortright | Jul 7, 2017 | No Comments
Increasing road capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will backfire.
Photo: Robert Jack Wikimedia CC License
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Yet Another Flawed Congestion Report From Inrix

By Joe Cortright | Feb 28, 2017 | No Comments
Do the costs of congestion outweigh the costs of building wider roads? Probably not. Despite an impressive amount of data, Inrix falls into the same old traps with its congestion report.
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What the Price of Parking Shows Us About Cities

By Joe Cortright | Oct 24, 2016 | No Comments
Cross-posted from City Observatory.  Earlier, we rolled out our parking price index, showing the variation in parking prices among large US cities. Gleaning data from ParkMe, a web-based directory of parking lots and rates, we showed how much it cost to park on a monthly basis in different cities. There’s a surprising degree of variation: […]
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Comparing the Price of Parking Across U.S. Cities

By Joe Cortright | Oct 20, 2016 | No Comments
This article was cross-posted from City Observatory.  How much does it cost to park a car in different cities around the nation? Today, we’re presenting some new data on a surprisingly under-measured aspect of cities and the cost of living: how much it costs to park a car in different cities. There are regular comparisons of […]
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McMansions Fading Away?

By Joe Cortright | Sep 13, 2016 | No Comments
Just a few months ago we were being told—erroneously, in our view–that the McMansion was making a big comeback. Then, last week, there were a wave of stories lamenting the declining value of McMansions. Bloomberg published: “McMansions define ugly in a new way: They’re a bad investment –Shoddy construction, ostentatious design—and low resale values.”  The […]
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Court: Don’t Spend Billions on Outdated Travel Forecasts

By Joe Cortright | Aug 11, 2016 | No Comments
Cross-posted from City Observatory.  Last week, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has ordered new ridership projections for the proposed Purple Line light rail line, which will connect a series of Maryland suburbs. Like any multi-billion dollar project that serves a densely settled metropolitan area—and this one connects some […]
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Are Millennials Racing to Buy Cars? Nope

By Joe Cortright | Apr 26, 2016 | No Comments
Crossposted from City Observatory. Hot on the heels of claims that Millennials are buying houses come stories asserting that Millennials are suddenly big car buyers. We pointed out the flaws in the home-buying story earlier this month, and now let’s take a look at the car market. The Chicago Tribune offered up a feature presenting […]
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